Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 28, 2018

This villain keeps getting battier and battier each time I see him!

“Peter Pitchblende.” And I thought I had a strange name.

So the plot deepens. Makes me wonder if they really were going to deal black market drugs to children.

Vortex is planning.

A scheme involving Pitchblende.

A devious plan.

Good morning™, trustees!

So… Polar Vortex seems to have inherited the trusteeship of Pitchblende’s inheritance. A new scheme is in development!

Good morning™, Pitcblende movie miners !

What was the purpose of doing the drug thing when all it has done is get him noticed ?  Extracting a tidy sum from cartoon guy looks like a more subtle way of doing crime than having all that public presence. Nabbing the girls has gotten him under the MCU electron microscope. If they’re smart they have a tail on Devilia.

Vitamin returns from tour. Feels so good to be home

Settles in with Kandikane. For now they’ve ceased to roam.

Little blessing on the way, now time to tie the knot

Gather family and friends, rejoice in all they’ve got.

Vitamin a happy man who found love late in life

Won the heart of Kandikane who soon shall be his wife.

Elsewhere Polar has a plan, a trust fund he would raid

Matters not who bleeds or dies, as long as he gets paid.

A film fest in the offing, it stars Deacon and Miller

Grab some popcorn while it’s hot, this show could be a killer.

A diabolical scheme doesn’t need a reason

It also doesn’t matter whatever is the season

’Tis how it is

A hit or miss

We always come back for more

A perfect shirt without a stain

Or a coat with errors galore

This climate change

You can’t exchange

A thought against the grain

Without the gang

Of misfit toys

Calling you nuts and insane

I choose to fight

For what is my right

To voice my deep dismay

When stories turn

And nothing is learned

’Tis always the only true way

Rhymes of hate do chafe and grate

‘Tis such a sorry tune

Go and find another strip

Cease howling at the moon.

It does so want attention

Under the bridge a stink

Worships at a stagnate pool

Imbibes a fetid drink.

Such a sorry life it is

To live in sodden waste

To ridicule whilst sneering

And scribble rhymes debased.

“Dick Miller” …?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Miller

Pitchblende: A massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.

Express yourself! They’ll say for sure

But we know what is truly the score

“Go Away!” The bullies will say

“March in step or a price you’ll pay!”

They leave you alone if you nod and agree

But attack with a vengeance if you’re coffee, not tea

The hypocritical lies of “Let’s get along”

Apply only to those they say do belong

No matter, their hate is as shallow as they

I’ll never stop reading and won’t go away

So use your time to attack how I rhyme

It doesn’t matter to me

Old English is dead and recaps hurt my head

Now, “Please explain how did Devil get free!”

Wasn’t the weird “Russian mobster” busted in the kidnapping caper??

Um… they “had a look around” when they were investigating Polar the first time?! How did they miss these mob files?! More holes to the story, or Tracy suddenly had to become one stupid detective for the convenience of the plot.Not only that, but there has never been a point in U.S. history where $50,000 inflates to $2,000,000 today.

Polar Vortex, Russian Mob? Let’s see how all this ties together

Paper files? Easy to confiscate, time consuming to destroy? Geez, dude – you have enough cold air to keep five data servers working at peak efficiency; get with the times, man!

Seems we have a Battle of the Bards going on today.

avenger09 vs. Pequod.

What does that mean? Invested money FROM Miller? Miller loaned the mob money and now Vortex is going to thoughtfully return it?

Today’s “Roll of Honour” is just heart-breaking. They are all sad, but this seems tragic.

The “Roll of Honour” sadly extends now to the Steel City.

Am I getting this right? Piotr Volkov, a.k.a. Polar Vortex, an ex-Russian mobster (as much as one ever can be “ex-”), is fronting (now) as a financial advisor (hence the more or less legit massive files) and is somehow going to try to divest Peter Pitchblende, cartoonist, of a forgotten inheritance in the form of a trust from Dick Miller, of Deacon and Miller fame, that is now worth millions? This is apparently an ICP, an Improvised Criminal Plot. Oh, how clever can the cold-hearted gangster really be?

THE Dick Miller?